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Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Excerpt & Giveaway - The SEAL's Angel by Petie McCarty

The SEAL's Angel

by Petie
McCarty

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BLURB:

The SEAL's Angel is the
third story in the Mystery Angel Romance [MAR] series. Each stand-alone love
story in the series has an angel hidden in the plot, and the angel's identity
isn't revealed until the finale -- unless the reader figures it out first.

In The SEAL's Angel,
Navy SEAL Sean MacKay's teammate is murdered after stealing a deadly nerve-gas
formula from Syrian terrorists. Naval Intelligence believes MacKay's teammate
was a traitor and shipped the stolen formula to his sister in the states for
safekeeping. MacKay is given orders to find the sister before the terrorists do
and to retrieve the stolen formula at all costs.

Foreclosure looms for
Cory Rigatero as she fights to keep her rustic resort near Mt. St. Helens
afloat after her brother deserted her to join the SEAL Teams. Cory's whole
world dives into a tailspin when Sean MacKay shows up at her resort with the
news of her brother's death and the wild suspicion her brother may have sent
her traitorous classified documents. No way will Cory trust MacKay -- the man
who once seduced her and then vanished into the night without a trace.

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EXCERPT:

Her assailant wrestled her further into the cabin. Cory
fought with everything she had until she spied Vern sprawled on the floor
behind her desk. She gasped into the cloth and ceased her struggling. Was Vern
dead? Rage welled up, and she redoubled her efforts to break free, breathing
heavily now. A wave of dizziness swamped her and made it hard to connect with
her punches and kicks. Must be drugs in the cloth.

"Be still," her assailant growled. His fetid
breath washed over her cheek.

Dear Lord, it was him! The Syrian who'd attacked her in her
bedroom.

She jerked her head fiercely to get free of the tainted
cloth, feeling weaker with each attempt. The sound of shattering glass
penetrated the haze trying to settle over her mind. A spine-tingling snarl
echoed close by.

Cory cried out beneath the cloth, but her movements grew
labored. A loud wail erupted near her head, and the cloth fell away from her
face. She greedily sucked in gulps of fresh oxygen as the sound of shrieks and
snarls mixed together in the close quarters of the cabin. She tried to shake
off the muddled haze as her assailant wrestled a dark form on the floor.

Garth?

The front window was non-existent save for a few jagged
pieces of glass still clinging to the frame. Garth had her assailant on the
floor, his jaws shaking the man's arm side to side. She looked around for a
weapon. She had to help Garth.

Man and dog wrestled across the floor. Vern suddenly
groaned, and Cory flew to his side. As she tried to roll him over, she felt the
thirty-eight lodged in his back waistband. She snatched the gun and reared up
right as Garth yelped from a kick to his ribs. The assailant broke free of the
Lab and spied Cory aiming the gun.

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Petie spent a
large part of her career working as a biologist at Walt Disney World --
"The Most Magical Place on Earth" -- where she enjoyed working in the
land of fairy tales by day and creating her own romantic fairy tales by night.
She eventually said good-bye to her "day" job in order to write her
stories full-time.

Petie is a
member of Romance Writers of America, and she shares homes in Tennessee and
Florida with her horticulturist husband, a spoiled-rotten English Springer
spaniel addicted to pimento-stuffed green olives, and a noisy Nanday conure
named Sassy who made a cameo appearance in Angel to the Rescue.